Dr Seema Mihrshahi

Senior Research FellowPublic Health, School of Public Health

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Seema is a Senior Research Fellow in the Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Research Group (PANORG) based within the Prevention Research Collaboration at the School of Public Health. Her current research interests focus on population-based approaches to prevention of overweight and obesity in children and adults, effective monitoring and surveillance strategies, and program evaluation.

As part of her background in nutritional epidemiology she has been involved in projects that focus on malnutrition – both over and under nutrition in developing country contexts, particularly related to the nutrition of women and children. She has participated in research projects in India, Vietnam, Thailand and Bangladesh. She is currently one of the Chief Investigators of the NH&MRC funded Mirpur Shishu Pushti Project in Bangladesh. The project is testing an extended peer counselling intervention to improve the prevalence of breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding practices and reduce rates of malnutrition in infants and children in urban Dhaka.

Seema is a founding member of the South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network (SAIFRN) funded by AusAID. SAIFRN seeks to improve infant and young child feeding practices and reduce infant mortality in the South Asian region.

Seema’s previous roles were as Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Queensland, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University, The University of Melbourne and previous to that at the University of Sydney and The George Institute for International Health Research.